TENNESSEE WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

 

COLETTE MURRAY REACHES QUARTER-FINALS

 

Colette Murray from Dumfries, head women's golf coach at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, made a rare competitive golf appearance recently in the Tennessee women's amateur championship at the Country Club of Bristol, Tennessee.

She reached the quarter-finals before losing to 21-year-old Holly Cantwell, a student at the University of Tennessee.

Miss Cantwell went on to reach the final before losing by 4 and 3 to Shelley Anderson, a 33-year-old private investigator and a graduate of the University of Tennessee.

Colette has been given the task of re-starting the UTC women's golf programme which has been dormant since the mid-1980s. The women's team will play on the American college golf circuit from the autumn of next year and Miss Murray is hoping to recruit British and Irish girls to be the backbone of the UTC team.